verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
to
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Since then he has created a garden few of us would aspire to after a lifetime of gardening.
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Partnerships differ in scope, purpose and specific orientation and in the nature of relationship they aspire to .
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Billy Egan and Terry Place had not quite risen to their ranks, although Egan at least had aspired to.
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But I also know that Gordon Wilson's view is the only one worth aspiring to .
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What he aspired to was the union of southern Anglian peoples under the leadership of a Mercian king and a Mercian archbishop.
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What finer sepulchre of honour could any Marine ever aspire to ?
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It's a description to aspire to.
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As in Darcy's Utopia, in the future we aspire to .
■ NOUN
man
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To hold such a cure, a man must aspire to the crown of humanity.
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If the model democratic citizen is active, participating, and influential, is this what the ordinary man aspires to be?
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The cultivation of creativity is the most important requirement of men who aspire to the highest reaches of the transcendent world.
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Before he made that call, he would have said he was a man who aspired to peace, and rest.
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Police earnings in the 1920s were substantial by comparison with most other occupations to which a working man could aspire .
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What then were the hurdles facing a young man aspiring to a scholarly career in the early sixteenth century?
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When I was a young man , aspiring detectives would attend at autopsies on their rest days, just for experience.
people
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It is a sign of the economic desperation that young people even aspire to work in impoverished Moscow and Bucharest.
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Sir Adrian believes that today young people aspiring to careers in industry should seriously think about setting up their own small firms.
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To be a good business man is the epitome of development and these learned people secretly aspire to that goal.
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This may be excellent fodder for people who are aspiring to be the next winner of Mastermind.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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How he must have aspired to rise up forcefully, his yearning impregnating the walls with a similar passion.
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Laura had always aspired to the very best within a certain budget; her budget had now expanded.
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What he aspired to was the union of southern Anglian peoples under the leadership of a Mercian king and a Mercian archbishop.